I am Da Song

Chapter 619
The most damaged by the construction of the railway is undoubtedly the water transport workers who depend on the canal for their livelihood and the market towns along the river.

The water transportation in the Song Dynasty was particularly developed. On the Hebei Plain and the Henan Plain, the Song Dynasty built dense water networks.

It is not only for the convenience of grain transportation, but also to enhance the efficiency of material and commodity circulation in the industrial zone.They even lead the Hanoi route for the sea merchants' ships, avoiding complicated water patterns.

It is a bit conservative to say that the food and clothing of the million-dollar Cao Gong are related.

The total number of men and women relying on the entire water transportation network may be as high as 400 million. If some related industries are counted more broadly, the number may exceed 800 million.

If Zhao Huan insists on promoting the railway, even though there are millions of public opinion, he can still carry it out.

After all, the Qing Dynasty also built more than 70 railways in the ten years before its demise, with a length of more than 9000 kilometers and more than 4000 locomotives.

With this mileage and the number of trains, it is not unreasonable to claim that the Qing Dynasty was one of the great powers.

It's just that foreigners didn't expect that the Qing Dynasty had such a strong reserve of national power. His brain, the group of feudal rulers, had been rotten and necrotic, resulting in the fact that even one tenth or even one percent of its strength could not be exerted.

The reason why Zhao Huan thought of the Qing Dynasty was that he felt that the corrupt court of the Qing Dynasty could push the railway forward, and he had no reason why he could not suppress the opposition of the water transport workers.

It's just that he doesn't want to directly suppress.

In his opinion, the water network in the industrial area still has a very powerful effect that has not been brought into play.

Railway and water transport do not necessarily require you to die, and there is no need to choose one or the other.

The best solution is actually to develop water transport, reduce its freight costs, and make water transport more prosperous than ever.

After all, canal transportation is still in use until the new century, and it is not useless in itself. On the contrary, as long as water conservancy exists, it is one of the most optimal transportation options.

So after the ministers left, Zhao Huan kept Su Dai in the Chuigong Hall, which was his office, and Su Dai could hardly come here.

Zhao Huan said with a smile: "Sit down, how does it feel to participate in the court meeting?"

Su Dai covered her mouth and said in a low voice with a blushing face, "I have a sense of sacred mission. It seems that every word I say will affect the fate of countless people in the world."

"Haha, it's good to get acquainted with it a few times. You are my concubine, and you have to set an example for the world's female officials."

Su Dai asked curiously, "Do I court female officials more?"

"The proportion is not large, but the total number is not small. There are probably more than [-] officials and subordinates."

As Zhao Huan said, the scale of female officials in the Song Dynasty has expanded again.They are no longer limited to the Palace, Imperial City Division, Imperial Medical Office and schools, they have already participated in the administrative management.

More generally speaking, many yamen of the imperial court already had women sitting behind desks, recording texts, processing documents, and calculating data.

In other dynasties, this kind of thing should be very shocking.

However, the ideological trend of Da Song was volatile, often jumping from one extreme to another.

Zhu Xi is the truest witness of this characteristic. His Neo-Confucianism and Psychology were exalted to the heavens in a short time.

Sometimes he was directly beaten to the [-]th floor of hell, wishing that everyone would shout and beat him, criticize every word in it, and imprison his knowledge as the worst forbidden book, every sentence in literature The most vicious, most disgusting dross.

At the moment, the ideological trend of Da Song is in the latter, don't talk about the defense of men and women!
The proportion of folk women participating in industry and commerce is close to 5.00%. At this time, whoever comes out to say that a woman's boudoir name can't be said, women can't show their faces, and they can't work in the same room with men.

Isn't that challenging the civilized order of the whole society and cutting off people's money?

There are women sitting behind the counter everywhere in private restaurants, banks, shops, workshops, and dental shops, and the trend will inevitably spread to the public.

The government no longer particularly emphasized the selection of some swordsmen and fighting food officials. Only males were selected.

This item really wasn't deliberately promoted by anyone, it was formed naturally.

After all, Song Dynasty has run so many schools, both men and women have to go to school, and women's cultural literacy may not be weaker than men's.

Therefore, the slightly enlightened temple supervisor relaxed the conditions, and some women succeeded in the selection test.

The most important point of the reform of official administration in the Song Dynasty was to break through the gap between officials and officials. In theory, subordinate officials have been promoted and can sit on the position of prime minister.

The prime minister must start from the state and county, which is the current beautiful vision of the Song Dynasty.

But it really happened that the officials of the temple supervisor came from the subordinate staff.

As far as Zhao Huan knew, there were already women in charge of government affairs in both the taxation temple supervisor and the patent temple supervisor.

But so far, there have been no female magistrates, female magistrates, and female criminal judges.

Throughout the dynasties, there have been several examples of women serving as officials, and they were high-ranking officials.In contrast, these women in the Song Dynasty seemed insignificant as officials, and they were all grassroots officials.

But in fact, the difference is very big. The most important thing is that these female officials in the Song Dynasty are universal, and they themselves have been integrated into the entire bureaucratic system and become an indispensable and important part.

No one can select tens of thousands of bureaucrats and subordinate staff to replace all women's positions in a short period of time.

This prevents them from becoming a short-lived case, and can pass on this civilization tradition.

According to the current development of the trend, it may not take long before Song Dynasty can generally accept the fact that women are officials.

Just like at present, everyone can accept women as professors in schools and as shopkeepers in inns.

Su Dai was quite relieved, and said: "With so many women participating in the officialdom, I am not an isolated case, and I am no longer so attractive."

Zhao Huan said with a smile: "It's mediocre not to be envied by others, but you are a little genius. I still count on you, a little genius, to help me solve the problem of water transportation efficiency."

"Water transport?" Su Dai asked, "Didn't the government always pay attention to the railway?"

Zhao Huan handed her an orange and said: "The railway must be developed, and the water transport must not be abandoned."

"In the current water transportation, one stone of grain is consumed on the way from the southeast to the capital. Compared with transporting grain by land, although it is still economical, it is much worse than that by train."

"That's why I hope Qing and the Taiyuan Academy can help me solve the problem of water transportation efficiency."

"This is not a trivial matter, but it is about the food and clothing of millions of Caogongs. Whether this problem can be solved, and whether the trains and rails can be laid smoothly. I don't want the civil disputes to boil over, and the imperial court is forced to use power to promote the construction of the railway."

(End of this chapter)